Hackers Can Jailbreak Digital License Plates to Make Others Pay Their Tolls and Tickets

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December 16, 2024, 11:00 AM

• •Security researcher Josep Rodriguez has revealed a technique to "jailbreak" digital license plates sold by Reviver, the leading vendor of those plates in the US with 65,000 plates already sold.
• •By removing a sticker on the back of the plate and attaching a cable to its internal connectors, he's able to rewrite a Reviver plate's firmware in a matter of minutes.
• •The susceptibility to jailbreaking, Rodriguez points out, could let drivers with the license plates evade any system that depends on license plate numbers for enforcement or surveillance, from tolls to speeding and parking tickets to automatic license plate readers that police use to track criminal suspects.

Digital license plates can be hacked to change their display to show any characters or image, evade tolls, tickets, and surveillance, and even pin them on someone else.

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